Anything for Bread

Anything for Bread
Directed by Enrique Urbizu
Produced by

Joaquín Trincado (producer)

Gaizka Uraga (executive producer)
Written by Luis Marías
Starring
Music by Bernardo Bonezzi
Cinematography Carles Gusi
Edited by Ana Murugarren
Distributed by Creativideo
Release date
 14 August 1991 (Spain)
Running time
 88 minutes
Country Spain
Language Spainish

Anything for Bread (Spanish: Todo por la pasta) is a 1991 Spanish film directed by Enrique Urbizu and written by Luis Marías.

The director used Álex de la Iglesia's graphic work for production design.[1][2]

It was filmed in [Bilbao]], Bakio, Santurce, Okondo, Getaria, Gipuzkoa and Arrieta,[3] in the Basque region of Spain.[4] The city of Bilbao gave the film a neo-noir look with a post modern-twist.[5]

Themes

The film centres on an armed robbery within a bingo hall,[6] within a background in the underworld of drug dealing, sexual perversion and police corruption (within the justice system, including a political assassination). Woven through this are the stories of 2 very different women from opposite backgrounds. The robber (Maria) fleeing the scene is picked up by a young woman (Kiti). They start as vulnerable, (being threatened and also betrayed), they also start fighting against each other to gain the proceeds of the robbery. As they gets to know each other, they gain respect from each other, and this helps them fight the angry masculine counterparts. They eventually become sisters-in-arms and get the money.[7]

Cast

Awards and nominations

Won

Nominated

Reception

It has also been called "a satisfactory thriller".[9]

One reviewer noted that the film was "a strange mixture of thriller and comedy", it has "great set pieces" but an "excessively jumbled script". It is an "irregular but sympathetic product".[6]

References

  1. ↑ Dona Kercher Latin Hitchcock: How Almodóvar, Amenábar, De la Iglesia, Del Toro, and Campanella became Notorious, p. 137, at Google Books
  2. ↑ Antonio Lazaro-Reboll Spanish Horror Film, p. 300, at Google Books
  3. ↑ "Todo por la pasta (1991) Filming & Production". imdb.com/. Retrieved 26 August 2018.
  4. ↑ Enrique Ávila López Modern Spain, p. 357, at Google Books
  5. ↑ Myrto Konstantarakos (editor) Spaces in European Cinema, p. 133, at Google Books
  6. 1 2 "ALL FOR THE PASTA (1991, Enrique Urbizu)" (in Spainish). thecinema.blogia.com. 19 August 2004. Retrieved 26 August 2018.
  7. ↑ Barry Jordan and Rikki Morgan-Tamosunas Contemporary Spanish Cinema, p. 191, at Google Books
  8. ↑ "Enrique Urbizu". spainisculture.com. Retrieved 26 August 2018.
  9. ↑ Joan Ramon Resina (editor) Burning Darkness: A Half Century of Spanish Cinema, p. 5, at Google Books
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